As North Korea preps a ballistic missile launch over Japan, the Japanese are grandstanding back with promises of robots walking on the moon by 2020.
A government task force charged with plotting Japans future space development said it wants a two-legged robot strolling on luna firma by the end of the next decade.
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I for one

groovy!

What is the point of sending a two legged robot?

People have spent many years and vast sums of money on developing bipedal robots, and they *still* such. They have absolutely no benefit, aside from looking vaguely human shaped, and thats hardly a worthy design goal for a robot which is actually intended to get out there and do something useful.